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Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals Exam Ref SC-900

By : Dwayne Natwick
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Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals Exam Ref SC-900

By: Dwayne Natwick

Overview of this book

Cloud technologies have made building a defense-in-depth security strategy of paramount importance. Without proper planning and discipline in deploying the security posture across Microsoft 365 and Azure, you are compromising your infrastructure and data. Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals is a comprehensive guide that covers all of the exam objectives for the SC-900 exam while walking you through the core security services available for Microsoft 365 and Azure. This book starts by simplifying the concepts of security, compliance, and identity before helping you get to grips with Azure Active Directory, covering the capabilities of Microsoft’s identity and access management (IAM) solutions. You'll then advance to compliance center, information protection, and governance in Microsoft 365. You'll find out all you need to know about the services available within Azure and Microsoft 365 for building a defense-in-depth security posture, and finally become familiar with Microsoft's compliance monitoring capabilities. By the end of the book, you'll have gained the knowledge you need to take the SC-900 certification exam and implement solutions in real-life scenarios.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Section 1: Exam Overview
3
Section 2: The Key Concepts of Security, Compliance, and Identity
7
Section 3: The Microsoft Identity Management Solutions
11
Section 4: The Microsoft Security Solutions for Microsoft 365 and Azure
17
Section 5: The Microsoft Compliance Monitoring Capabilities within Microsoft 365 and Azure

Define the concepts of SIEM, SOAR, and XDR

Let's start by explaining Microsoft Sentinel and what Security Information Event Management (SIEM) and Security Orchestration Automated Response (SOAR) solutions are.

SIEM is a solution within a security operations center that gathers logs and events from various appliances and software within an information technology infrastructure. These SIEM solutions then review the logs and events for potential threats by searching for behavior that is not typical of best practices or may be seen as anomalous or atypical. The benefit of having and utilizing SIEM is that without it, security operations personnel would need to review each of these log and event files manually. Since there are thousands of log and event files within companies, this option has the potential for mistakes, as fatigue becomes an issue when scrolling through these files. SIEM picks out the logs and events that could be a threat, and security personnel can then investigate...